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After a thorough search for a new folder, the Office of Publications, Print and Mail at Bucknell University chose a Baum UltraFold 714XA Autofold to replace the shop's Duplo tabletop folder.

Binding and finishing news briefs from Printing Impressions’ January 2013 edition, featuring Phil Vedda & Sons.

Will we ever go back to long-run offset work? Is the variability and one-off flexibility of the digital press turning the old, heavy iron obsolete? If the Obama-Romney rhetoric parade of 2012 taught us anything, it's that the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.

Producing booklets has gotten a whole lot easier at Westat since the employee-owned research firm’s in-plant installed a new Duplo System 5000 collating/booklet making system. 

“We purchased the booklet maker because we produce a lot of booklets, and not all of our machines had finishing capabilities on them,” reports Ezra Schneider, manager of the eight-employee Reproduction and Copy Services department. 

On Tuesday, IPG Editor Bob Neubauer spoke at an in-plant open house event held at Konica Minolta Business Solutions' facility in Pittsburgh, Pa. In-plants from around the region attended the event, which featured several seminars plus an opportunity to see demos of equipment from Konica Minolta and its partners.

Logistics Management Institute recently upgraded the finishing capabilities of its Office Services department by installing a new Duplo near-line booklet making system in its McLean, Va., facility. Comprising the DSF-2000 sheet feeder, the DBM-500 booklet maker, the slit/cut/crease unit, and the ASM-500 square spine module, the new equipment is being used to produce marketing material and signature booklets for LMI, and to score tri-fold flyers and cards.

Fujifilm will show the J Press 720 inkjet press. Heidelberg will present Prinect Digital Workflow Integration. New features for the Kodak NexPress platform will be shown.

Before adding its new Intoprint DP-100GA+ digital envelope printer, Columbus State University Printing Services handled envelope printing a bit differently. The minimum order size it could print on its two-color ABDick was 500, and the turnaround time was between three and five days. And four-color envelopes? Forget it.

Don't tell the Blue Valley School District of Overland Park, Kan., that the digital age is cutting into the need for hard copy documents. Its Printing Services operation has been humming away all summer, delivering on as many as 40,000 job orders to satisfy about 3,100 teachers at 35 schools.

Xanté Symphony Workflow is a comprehensive, turnkey PDF workflow featuring support for both the Adobe PDF Print Engine and Adobe PostScript 3. It drives all output devices (platesetters, imagesetters, laser printers, digital color presses, copiers, inkjet printers and plotters) from one RIP. Symphony Workflow’s scanning, trapping, screening, advanced imposition and ganging, Pantone Color Libraries support, and color proofing features are available for all output devices. Symphony Workflow automates tedious, error-prone prepress tasks and offers enhanced imposition that allows mixing of page sizes and orientations on a press sheet.